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Victor Perez cards hole-in-one at Oakmont's 6th hole during U.S. Open

Nick Profile Picby: Nick Geddes06/13/25NickGeddesNews
Victor Perez
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Victor Perez has hit perhaps the shot of the tournament thus far at the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Perez carded a hole-in-one ace on the par-3 sixth during his second round on Friday.

You don’t see many of those at a track as tough as Oakmont. A shot like that is worthy of a celebration and celebrate did he ever. Perez jumped into the air and chest-bumped his caddie James Erkenbeck.

The ace was Perez’s first on the PGA Tour. It’s the 16th ace of the 2025 season on Tour and the 54th ace in U.S. Open history. It’s even rarer at Oakmont, which is hosting the U.S. Open for the 10th time. Perez’s ace was just the second in those events, and first since Scott Simpson on the par-3 16th during the first round in 1983. 

Perez will hope there’s more heroics to come as he shifts his focus to the weekend. He needed something special to get his Round 2 back on track. It’s been an adventure for the 32-year-old in just his fifth U.S. Open start. Sixteen holes through, Perez has carded three birdies, two bogeys and one triple bogey. The ace got him back to even for the round. Perez is 1-over for the tournament, T12. Perez will make the cut for the first time in his U.S. Open career.

Victor Perez cards rare ace at Oakmont

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler called Oakmont “probably the hardest golf course that we’ll play, maybe ever.” So, when you card an ace, you know it means something.

“I kind of equate some of the major tests to — like the majors in tennis you’re playing on a different surface,” Scheffler said. “You’ve got grass, clay and then the hard court, and it’s a different style of game. The U.S. Open compared to the Masters, is a completely different type of test… When you miss the green at the Masters, the ball runs away and it goes into these areas, and you can play a bump, you can play a flop. There’s different options.

“Here, when you hit the ball over the green, you just get in some heavy rough, and it’s like, let me see how I can pop the ball out of this rough and somehow give myself a look.”